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Corporate Responsibility
The following is the Corporate Responsibility Report as published in the C&C Group's 2017 Annual Report.
- We are supporting the implementation of minimum unit pricing in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
- We display calorie information on our packaging in the UK and Ireland.
- We became the first and are currently the only drinks company in the UK to communicate the Chief Medical Officer's new responsible drinking guidelines on packaging.
- We are working with Governmental bodies, Drinkaware and police forces on initiatives to improve the safety of the night time economy.
- The Tennent's Training Academy provides high quality hospitality industry training, now having trained over 34,000 people.
- We have made significant charitable contributions at local and national level.
- Efficiencies at our manufacturing sites have meant that our energy consumption per hectolitre fell by 3%.
- Our two largest production sites, Clonmel and Wellpark, sent zero waste to landfill.
- Health and Safety programmes have delivered a significant reduction in the number of injuries resulting in lost-work days.
- Our commitment to the environment and agriculture is extremely high. During the last 12 months we pressed over 83,000 tonnes of fruit.
- We pay the appropriate and required level of tax in the different countries we operate in and remit substantial amounts of alcohol duty.
Ensuring that the group operates in an environmentally and socially responsible way is one of our key values. We operate a range of policies that ensure we deliver the demands of our stakeholders.
Our operations teams in each of the Group's manufacturing facilities continue to actively work on reducing our impact on the environment. Their focus is to reduce the consumption of energy, water and other raw materials as well as the amount of waste going to landfill and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We also actively continue to review mechanisms whereby we can increase transportation efficiency.
FY2017 was a year of major restructuring of our manufacturing facilities and footprint. The rationalisation of our manufacturing footprint brought increased activity in both Wellpark and Clonmel during the peak production season. The process of commissioning across multiple production lines did impact the overall level of energy consumption in our Clonmel facility but this must be viewed in the light of the increased level of activity.
Despite these challenges, the total electricity used per hectolitre of product produced in our manufacturing sites reduced by a further 3% from FY2016, and similarly water consumption reduced by 10% year-onyear. This was as a result of the continuing benefits from our significant investment in the cooling plant vessels at Wellpark, the upgrading of the lighting in a number of areas to more energy efficient units and the consolidation of production within our two main production sites. The consumption of natural gas per hl produced did increase by 10% in the year. This was despite improvements in performance at Clonmel, Wellpark and Borrisoleigh with the rundown of production activities at Shepton Mallet negatively impacting the overall Group performance.
Our manufacturing site at Clonmel continues to be accredited with the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001; and to the Irish Energy Management Standard IS EN 16001:2009, the ISO 50001:2011 Energy Management Standard and works closely with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). These standards require us to demonstrate the systematic management of energy leading to a decline in GHG emissions. Our environmental management systems at Wellpark are aligned with Clonmel and continued to meet their regulatory targets in FY2017. In the UK, we continue to avail of the Government's small emitters opt out scheme. This resulted in the site receiving a silver award from Keep Scotland Beautiful, who audit public and private sector sites on their impact on the environment and contribution to the local community.
Carbon Consumption
The Group continuously monitors the impact of its operations on the climate and we look to reduce our GHG emissions. We assess and manage climate change related risks and opportunities, including the impact on the availability and security of our sources of raw materials, such as aquifers, orchards and maltings.
The Group has participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain Programme for a number of years, and CO2 emissions for the Group are evaluated annually. The Group has historically scored highly in the CDP Ireland Report, showing disclosure scores which are amongst the best in its sector. Scope 1 and 2 CO2 emissions in FY2017 are broken down across our manufacturing sites as follows:
|9,191 tonnes
|Shepton Mallet:
|5,022 tonnes
|17,204 tonnes
|3,182 tonnes
|6,629 tonnes
These emissions figures include the impact of the increased production volumes at our Wellpark and Clonmel facilities in FY2017.
The €1 million investment we made at Wellpark in FY2015 to improve energy efficiency is continuing to deliver year-onyear improvements and to reduce GHG emissions. Further investment has been made to the distribution fleet in Scotland with replacement trucks being equipped with new Euro 6 compliant diesel engines, which will ensure a further reduction in GHG emissions in the years to come.
In Ireland and the UK, through our commitment to rural development, we support orchard growers who manage over 2,000 hectares of orchards for apples used directly in the production of our cider.
We ensure compliance with national packaging regulations for our products placed into the marketplace. In Ireland, we also continue to recover and recycle CO2 produced by the cider fermentation process and use it to carbonate our products.
We have systems in place across all manufacturing sites working towards maximising the recycling of waste we produce and hence minimise what we send to landfill.
In FY2017, both Clonmel and Wellpark sent zero process waste to landfill. This was due to general waste reduction, increased waste stream segregation allowing more recycling, manual sorting of residual general waste to remove any recyclable materials and then sending the residue to a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) facility where electricity is generated.
At all the Group's manufacturing sites, water preservation and management is an important business consideration and we continue to monitor the usage of water per hectolitre of finished product from each manufacturing facility and across our supply chain. Each year the Group participates in the CDP Water Disclosure initiative in the Republic of Ireland and the UK.
In FY2017, our total water usage at our Clonmel, Shepton Mallet and Wellpark sites reduced by 10% compared with FY2016. This is equivalent to 3.2 hectolitres of water used per hectolitre (hl/hl) of product produced, which is significantly better than the recognised industry benchmark of 4 hl/ hl. In Clonmel, a number of initiatives were implemented during the year resulting in a 40% improvement in water usage per hectolitre of product produced.
Across the Group, we continue with our projects on brewery condensate recovery, reclaiming pasteuriser and bottle rinse water, fruit processing, and minimising plant and process cleaning systems. We also recover biogas from our anaerobic waste water treatment plant in Clonmel for use as fuel in our boilers.
Our procurement and technical services teams actively review and assess our suppliers' track record in environmental management, health and safety, sustainability and corporate social responsibility through our tendering processes and ongoing supplier reviews. This ensures that corporate social responsibility is part of sourcing decisions and sourcing strategies for new suppliers. This also allows us to develop a consistent approach to relationship management and supplier segmentation on supplier diversity, with an open dialogue encouraging best practice sharing and innovation that can be applied more widely.
We do not condone and will not knowingly participate in any form of human exploitation, including slavery and people trafficking. We refuse to work with any suppliers or service providers who knowingly participate in such practices or who cannot demonstrate to us sufficient controls to ensure that such practices are not taking place in their supply chains. Our approach is reflected in our Sustainable and Ethical Procurement Policy, which we circulate to suppliers. We also carry out diligence audits and checks on our suppliers to ensure that they have in place and adhere to appropriate ethical policies.
In particular, we work with all of our growers to ensure that appropriate methods are used to harvest apples. In FY2017, we commenced the process of repeated annualised audits of our contracted growers to ensure standards are being applied.
We seek to support suppliers of our key raw materials such as barley and wheat through entering into long-term supply arrangements with them. We take account of broader outputs such as the impact on sustainability, profit, cash flow, reputation, environmental and social impacts in order to create shared value across the supply chain.
We also leverage the expertise and capabilities of our suppliers to ensure C&C optimises the materials we use and reduces our impact on the environment.
Green Production
During the year, we processed 80,000 tonnes of apples and 3,600 tonnes of pears in our milling operations across the Group, which level of production was in line with the previous year.
We have long term contractual arrangements to continue to process fruit in the UK at the Shepton Mallet facility. During the year, the last phase of our five year orchard planting scheme was concluded.
We encourage sustainable agricultural practices and the preservation of biodiversity. In the UK, we are actively involved in the NACM which takes the lead in adopting and working to sustainable principles both in the physical and social environment, and carries out annual climate change assessments. The NACM is the first drinks trade body to work with Business in the Community (BITC) to address sustainability, and we have worked with the pomology and technical experts in the NACM to develop our sustainability agenda.
At our cider mill in Vermont we take part in "cow power" which means that we pay a premium on the electricity used and this premium is used to help dairy farmers install methane digesters turning manure into power. We also use a "solar orchard" which is a 26 array solar project providing sustainable electricity and diversification for local farmers. Both of these projects are good examples of how we are working in an innovative manner to safeguard energy supply.
Community Engagement
It is important to us that we operate as good citizens in our communities. We focus our efforts on activities that benefit our local areas. We work hard to ensure we have a positive impact on the communities in which we operate. A significant part of this is our approach to charitable activities where we support a wide range of charities particularly those that have a local impact in relation to our operating facilities.
The Group takes its responsibilities as a corporate citizen seriously. This includes respecting and complying with local tax laws and paying the required levels of tax in the different countries where we operate. We claim the allowances and deductions that we are properly entitled to, for instance, on the investment and employment that we bring to our communities. We benefit from having always been an Irish company, established in the Republic of Ireland's low tax environment, with our major cider production unit located in Clonmel and the Group headquartered in Dublin. The majority of the Group's profits are earned in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, which both have competitive corporation tax rates compared with the European average. In the Republic of Ireland and the UK we remit substantial amounts of duty on alcohol production.
We support a diverse range of sporting and live music events as well as charities and community projects across Ireland.
Our partnerships with sporting events include horse racing, endurance events and the city marathons in Dublin and Cork. In 2016, we also became the sponsor of the Tipperary hurling and football championships, covering all adult grades.
In the Republic of Ireland, our presence at music festivals is widespread including the Bulmers Forbidden Fruit Festival, Body & Soul and Metropolis along with more local events such as Beatyard, the Kilkenny Trad Festival, the Junction Festival in Clonmel and Bulmers Live at Leopardstown.
Tennent's has also partnered with the Irish Football Association in Northern Ireland supporting football at both a national and local level. We also support a number of live music events including Belsonic and Vital, which is Northern Ireland's biggest music festival. The annual sponsorship of this and other live music events by Tennent's helps bring world-class musicians to Northern Ireland.
In the Republic of Ireland, we continue to use our brands to raise money for local charities. Tipperary Kidz water has partnered with the ISPCC (the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), Ireland's national child protection charity. Tipperary Kidz water is providing a crucial platform for the ISPCC, putting the ISPCC Childline phone number into the hands of children by incorporating it on our Tipperary Kidz water bottles. We will donate €20,000 to the charity this year to support their freephone number, text number, online chat system, school outreach programme and their campaigning for children's rights, all run by professionally trained ISPCC staff and volunteers.
In Northern Ireland, we have partnered with CLIC Sargent (Cancer & Leukemia in Children). CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading cancer charity for children, young people and their families. Their care teams have been providing specialist support across the UK for many years. This partnership runs until August 2017 with a targeted fundraising amount of £20,000. We have organised numerous activities throughout the year including donating 2,000 of our limited edition Irish Football Association glasses to CLIC Sargent to sell on their charity eBay shop. To date, the glasses have raised over £12,000 for the charity. Other revenue streams include our drinks fridge in the office and numerous raffles over the Christmas period. There will be more activity coming through the year, including a charity sky dive.
We are extremely proud to support the Tony O'Brien scholarship in honour of our late Chairman, Tony O'Brien. This scholarship helps young people from Tony's home county of Kilkenny to attend the Quinn School of Business in University College Dublin and has been an outstanding success with the tenth Tony O'Brien scholarship having been awarded in September 2016.
We support a number of local schools by providing student work experience opportunities at our Clonmel production site for students in technical and manufacturing subjects as well as places in our marketing, finance and customer service departments in Dublin and Belfast.
We have a broad range of charitable activities including KidsOut Scotland where we organised a charitable dinner that raised over £50,000 and our support of PUBAID which highlights the charitable work carried out by UK pubs and which sees £100m raised annually. A key charitable initiative is the Goals for Charity campaign between Glasgow Celtic FC and Magners Irish cider where we donated £150 to the Celtic Charity Foundation for every goal scored by Celtic, which raised approximately £18,500 in the 2016/2017 season. This donation enabled Magners, the Tennent's Training Academy and the Celtic Charity Foundation to develop a programme to support 12 long-term unemployed adults to take part in a 10-week course focussed on developing skills in the hospitality industry as a gateway to securing future employment.
In conjunction with the Celtic Charity Foundation, we also have selected schools from disadvantaged areas in Glasgow, such as St. Mungo's Primary School in Glasgow's East End, to help encourage learning with outside activities. Through the Celtic Foundation, we funded a trim trail for their playground to help children interact during their school breaks. Working with KidsOut Scotland, we also helped fund a school trip for the children this summer to visit Blair Drummond Safari Park. Our intention is to develop this programme further with other schools across Glasgow. We also assisted local parishes in the East End of Glasgow, with funding for a visit to a Christmas pantomime for children in the parishes and a dinner for the elderly including supplying soft drinks.
We recently pledged support to a charity called "Voice-Over", based in Glasgow, which supports immigrants by embarking upon the social enterprise of providing translation services. We are helping this charity with funding, advice and translation requests. Our work with "Voice-Over" is an example of how we aim to use our charitable activity to help those affected by poverty and inequality in the local community.
We provide valuable support to those setting out on a career in the pub and hospitality industry. The Tennent's Training Academy, which offers a wide range of training programmes with nationally recognised qualifications in all aspects of the hospitality industry, has now trained over 35,000 people. The Tennent's Training Academy has expanded its operations and now provides a wider range of courses than ever before. We also have four modern apprentices currently working at Wellpark.
The Tennent's Training Academy also supports dozens of initiatives that underpin Tennent's ongoing commitment to benefit the community in which we operate. Examples include: the Yes Chef programme training six ex-offenders to become chefs; and Chefs For Christmas, which is a two week training programme in the Cookery School to help unemployed people access jobs as chefs and also to help address the shortage of chefs in the industry. We also supported the Together with Assisted Support Needs Schools Programme, which is a 35 week programme focusing on cooking and food safety, and provided front of house and customer service to Wellpark Picnic where we hosted local families at the Wellpark Brewery for a free picnic.
While we ceased operation at the cider mill in Shepton Mallet during the last 12 months, we arranged for the sale of the facility as a going concern safeguarding the jobs of 24 employees. Our commitment to the agricultural environment and apple growers of England is undiminished and we support Somerset Orchards by participating in the "Keep Somerset Orchards Alive" project.
North America
In FY2017, we donated over $20,000 to local charities and provided in-kind services to several non-profit industry associations. Survivorship NOW, a cancer survivor and supporter organisation, received our largest contribution at $10,000. We also donated $5,000 to the Vermont Foodbank by participating in a "pick for your neighbour" event, where our staff pick apples for the Foodbank and we reimbursed the orchard to cover the cost of the apples. Additionally we contributed $3,000 to the apples to iPods campaign which encourages Vermont children to search Vermont orchards for a chance to find an iPod, encouraging both healthy outdoor activities and healthy eating.
We have also upheld our commitment to our local orchard partners as well as the State and National Cider Associations. We sit and volunteer on the board of directors for the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association, the Vermont Cider Makers Association and the United States Association of Cider Makers. We host annual meetings for the University of Vermont's outreach to apple growers, and provide in-kind donations of marketing materials, digital marketing, consumer education and technical expertise to promote overall cider awareness.
We have a long term commitment to sourcing local apples. We are two years into a three year study to promote the sustainable growth of cider specific apples in Vermont by using less inputs and sprays on the orchard and paying a fair price to farmers to grow cider specific apples. The study involves 40 acres of orchard that is managed using cider specific techniques. We have provided funding for this initiative through $200,000 in payments per year for these specialty cider apples and through a $200,000 loan to the orchard to purchase additional cider acreage.
Business Support
When it comes to obtaining finance as a licensed trade operator, going through the traditional avenues of banks and building societies is becoming increasingly difficult. Nurturing and maintaining the on-trade is a key priority in particular for our business and we offer a range of financial supports in this regard. We can provide everything from small loans for repairs all the way up to larger sums for major refurbishments or to purchase new premises. Over the last six years, we have invested over £45m into the Scottish on-trade and over £31m into the on-trade in Northern Ireland.
Over the last five years, the Group has also demonstrated its willingness to support local entrepreneurs and job creation though the provision of seed capital for a number of small breweries and businesses such as the Whitewater Brewery and Five Lamps.
Heverlee is created in association with the Abbey of the Order of Premontre (known as Park Abbey) and is inspired by the beers first brewed by the monks in medieval times. The Abbey lies just outside Leuven and is the largest of its kind in Belgium, founded in 1129. Today, every pint of Heverlee sold supports the major multi-million Euro restoration of Park Abbey ensuring Heverlee is as bound to the Abbey's future as we are indebted to its past.
Responsible Drinking
Public Policy Leadership
For a relatively small drinks company, we punch well above our weight in terms of leading public policy on responsible drinking. We have influenced at a local, national and international level in relation to minimum unit pricing. We are currently the only drinks organisation carrying the UK Chief Medical Officer's new responsible drinking guidelines on our packaging in the UK. We also offer zero alcohol alternatives to all our main brands in the UK. The need to ensure that communities are well educated and protected in terms of their relationship with our products is central to our business.
We are members of the National Association of Cider Makers (NACM), which works closely with apple growers and the agricultural communities in cider regions in the UK, and we have a seat on the board of the organisation. This working relationship puts us at the heart of many UK Government discussions relating to the responsible use of alcohol. The NACM is also engaged with tax and regulatory departments and opinion-forming bodies having an interest in cider and alcohol generally.
Within Europe, we are corporate members and key influencers within the European Cider and Fruit Wine Association (AICV). Working with these and other organisations enables us to press for consistency in cider definitions across the world, which is important for our global expansion aspirations.
UK Chief Medical Officer Drinking Guidelines
In January 2016, the Chief Medical Officer of the UK published new responsible drinking guidelines. To date, we are the only drinks company in the UK to include the new guidelines on our packaging. It is one of our key principles that consumers should be given information about alcohol products at the time of consumption in order to help manage their relationship with alcohol. We launched the new responsible drinking guidelines on our packaging in a joint announcement with the Scottish Chief Medical Officer.
Stemming from our belief that consumers should be given information about what they are consuming in order to make their own informed choices, we took the decision to voluntarily display calorie information on our packaging in the UK and Ireland.
Our products are relatively low in sugar content with our leading cider brands containing less sugar than their key competitors and with Tennent's lager only containing trace levels of sugar. In Australia, Magners Blonde, a low carb version of Magners, has 85% lower carbohydrates than other ciders and no added sugar.
These pioneering initiatives are further proof of our commitment to ensuring a sustainable relationship between ourselves, our products and our communities.
We are funders of Drinkaware, which performs the valuable role of equipping consumers with information about their drinking. We also promote Drinkaware on our packaging and advertising materials. For the last 12 months, we have been leading Drinkaware's "devolved nations group" in order to ensure that Drinkaware messaging remains relevant to the differing health agenda of the devolved parts of the UK.
Best Bar None
As part of our strategy of focusing on local customers and consumers with responsible drinking messages and activity, we are a member of the Best Bar None scheme. The aim of this scheme is to improve the night time economy of many Scottish high streets, making them safer and more enjoyable places to be.
Business Rates
Our Scottish business has entered into a partnership with one of Scotland's leading chartered surveyors to seek to protect, as much as possible, the licensed trade from the impact of the recent rating revaluation in the UK. We have secured a preferential fee scale from the consultancy to assist any customers who wish to pursue an appeal against a rates increase. The feedback from our customers has been very positive and they welcome the support Tennent's has facilitated for them.
Minimum Unit Pricing
The Scottish Government has passed legislation to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol. During 2016, this legislation was the subject of a Scottish Court of Session ruling whereby the judges confirmed that the introduction of minimum unit pricing was compatible with EU law. However, following an appeal by the Scotch Whisky Association to the High Court in London, the implementation of this legislation has been delayed. We believe that minimum unit pricing is an important step in tackling irresponsible consumption of alcohol and, as such, we remain highly supportive of its implementation.
We are also supporting the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Governments in their plans to implement minimum unit pricing.
Over the next couple of years, we will play a role in influencing UK, Irish and Scottish Governments and the EU to help ensure a manageable outcome for our businesses resulting from Brexit. In FY2017, we contributed to a House of Lords study on the implications of Brexit for UK and Irish relations and are also working closely with the Food and Drink Federation in Ireland and the European Cider Association in relation to the implications of Brexit for our businesses.
Responsible Drinking Initiatives
We are committed to promoting responsible drinking in all the markets in which we operate. In addition to adhering to the relevant guidelines and legislation, we have also implemented a number of additional programmes to promote responsible drinking.
The Irish Government is finalising its new Alcohol Bill, which includes many farreaching initiatives to tackle the harm created by the misuse of alcohol in Ireland. This includes the introduction of minimum unit pricing, restrictions on advertising and improvements in health labelling. We have welcomed these initiatives as we believe that it is important to balance consumers' relationships with alcohol in order to maintain a sustainable business.
We also expanded the distribution for our 0% version of Tennent's, Hee Haw, and, as part of our plan to have a wide range of alcohol free alternatives, we launched Magners 0% alcohol cider during the year.
We have further developed our nonalcoholic product range, with increased marketing and promotion behind the Finches, Tipperary and JWV+ brands in Ireland.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals are able to make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit. We have a formal equal opportunities policy that commits us to promoting equality of opportunity for all our staff and job applicants. For our operations in Northern Ireland this includes adherence to the MacBride Principles. Our policy states that we do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, marital status, ethnicity, creed, sex or sexual orientation. The policy also requires our staff to treat customers, suppliers and the wider community in accordance with these principles as well.
Health and wellbeing of employees
While, in comparison to FY2016, the total number of lost time accidents increased during FY2017, the trend demonstrates a positive reduction over a longer timeframe.
The consolidation of our operating facilities brought increased activity to our facilities at Wellpark and Clonmel during the peak production season. During the year, we undertook major expansion at our Clonmel site, with a 35,000 man hour construction project being successfully achieved with no lost time accidents reported. The site achieved zero lost time accidents for the last five months of FY2017. Safety performance, training in safe manual handling and fork lift truck refresher training was also maintained at Borrisoleigh and Shepton Mallet during a challenging period at these sites.
At Wellpark, we re-launched our safety programme, which encourages safety interventions and resulted in a net improvement in safety behaviours overall. Our team manager safety training programme was recognised by the accrediting body (REHIS) as being best in Scotland for the second year running. Wellpark also commenced a programme of improving the working environment by fitting new technology lighting into the small pack warehouse and improving equipment access using bespoke platforms in the bottling hall. These developments will bring increased benefits in terms of safety, hygiene and a reduction in energy use.
The continuation of our health and safety days has had a significant impact regarding the engagement of employees. The key driver for this initiative is to ensure that employees are aware of the extent to which they can positively contribute to manufacturing health and safety and that they also have responsibility in this regard. This has partly been driven through the use of external health and safety consultants whose lives have all unfortunately been materially impacted by significant health and safety incidents. These sessions are being followed up at local level with interventions to keep this key message front of mind.
This increased level of engagement is also resulting in many more hazards being identified (and hence remedied) within the workplace, which helps with longer term performance improvements.
Employee Support
We aim to develop and lead highly motivated teams who have relevant and up to date skills. In FY2017, we undertook a range of activities to support the continued development of our employees.
As part of our continuing commitment to leadership development, during the year we arranged for a small number of high performing managers from across the Group to undertake the London Business School's accelerated development programme.
In our C&C Gleeson business in Ireland, there were a number of areas of focus. An employee communications forum was established and meets quarterly. This forum facilitates two way communication and dialogue on key messages, strategy and performance as well as creating an opportunity for ideas and suggestions from employees to be heard. Feedback from our employees is positive and they believe it has resulted in an improvement in communications in the business. In addition, we have sought to establish a high performance culture through increased emphasis on the line of sight between business objectives and individual KPIs and targets for our employees with appropriate rewards for achievement. This is supported by the provision of training to our people managers. We also encourage our employees to realise their full potential and have created various advancement opportunities, in particular within our sales team where a number of our sales representatives have advanced to become key account managers.
On the Operations side of our business in Ireland, FY2017 was a period of transition in relation to the movement of product and people from the Borrisoleigh site to the Clonmel manufacturing facility. All affected employees in Borrisoleigh were given the opportunity to transfer to our Clonmel site and a significant investment has been made in training those who wished to transfer for their new roles in our state of the art manufacturing facility.
In the UK, there have been a range of training and development activities across the business over the past 12 months. There has been a focus on the continued development of management capability within the commercial and operations areas where various programmes have been undertaken to develop both people management and leadership skills. There has also been investment in various industry relevant training initiatives for sales, marketing and our operations population. In addition, the business has supported the development of graduates through the CIMA accountancy qualification as well as a number of apprenticeship programmes.


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A Multi-faceted Look at the Life of an Underground Artist
February 29, 2012 in author, Book Reviews, Justice, Writing | Tags: amazon, art, artist, Black History, book review, Chicago, Chicago Blues, goodreads, homelessness, jesse hanson, jesse s. hanson, John H. Sibley, literature, Maxwell Street, open air market, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, slavery, street smarts, The Blues, underground artist, Upper Midwest | 6 comments
The following is my review of a new book, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist, by Chicago artist, John H. Sibley. It is a work that covers a lot of ground, touches on many social issues—issues that concern both artists and the homeless. These two concerns have formed a type of personal collage in John's world.
Although my roots (in this particular physical manifestation) are small town Upper Midwest America and John's are inner city, Chicago, interestingly enough, I can relate. I have little in common with John's upbringing, but my artistic longings and aspirations drew me to the city also—in my case it was Seattle, where I spent a period of my life as a street musician, immersed in the "culture" of the Pike Place Market and other local haunts, in the company of other musicians, artists, poets, crafts persons, vendors, entrepreneurs of questionable pursuits, alcoholics, drug addicts, homeless persons, and derelicts of great variety. I can relate, and I can confirm: the subjects of artists and homelessness are easily intertwined. John has, in fact, done this successfully and has become a type of spokesman for the underground artist, in doing so.
As always, I hope you'll enjoy my review and that you'll leave a comment if so inclined. Thanks for coming by, Jesse S. Hanson
A Multi-faceted Look at the Life of an Underground Artist
John H. Sibley's new literary work, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist, is an important and welcome contribution, arriving as it does, at a time when the scene of the art world is mostly cordoned off to all but the privileged elect. From my nosebleed seat in the bloody colosseum of the arts—being an underground artist myself—I often found myself cheering along as John attacked the giants, demons and all fierce bastions of that world with eloquence and candor.
"I was relegated to selling my art on the street level not because I lacked talent but because I was shunned, ostracized and treated like a pariah by both Chicago's white and black art establishments."
Taken out of context, as I have done here, I realize it sounds like sour grapes, like the complaint of an artist who has likely not put in the required effort, not stayed the course, or does, in fact, lack the talent to succeed. Not so: Not only has John been practicing and honing his unique artistic crafts since he was a young boy, but he is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His knowledge of the academics and history of art is formidable and that is only enhanced by the practical knowledge of a man of the streets.
However, there is much more to Being and Homelessness than a diatribe against the art establishment. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 8, The Lost Culture of Maxwell Street. This chapter deals with the multicultural open-air market atmosphere, highlighted by the legendary Chicago Blues culture that manifested for a period of some forty plus years. I had previously read this chapter, when it was posted on goodreads.com, and found it fascinating. The following is taken from the comment that I wrote, regarding the post, at that time: "This is very gritty and intense. It seems to be written just like someone is talking; telling about, reveling in their experience of life—stream of consciousness. There's just so much in there, almost more than the senses can deal with. Life experienced as a perpetual street fair—exhausting and thrilling at once."
Another aspect of John's book that I appreciated was his exploration of Black history in America. Here again, Sibley pulls no punches in presenting his facts and opinions:
–example of facts:
"The first slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to establish 244 years of slavery.
Contemporary African Americans have only been free 139 years, using 1863 as a benchmark, which means that blacks were slaves 105 years longer than we have been free."
–example of opinion:
"The salient fact is that black Americans are still reeling from the dehumanizing effects of the former slave trading nations of England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the US."
I certainly am not a fan of John H. Sibley's every opinion. I don't personally agree with his outspoken political criticism of Barack Obama, and especially with his endorsement of Herman Cain —I at first thought it was a huge literary blunder for him to include such opinions in his book. But after ruminating on it for a while, I think I can see a reason for the inclusion. His main point seems to be that Obama, although a black man, is not an "African American". "Obama's world is not the one of American slaves like my ancestors." Sibley is exploring the experience of the American descendants of the slaves. Fact is—and I can't deny it—Obama is not one of them—Cain is. It's a pure issue of identification.
For those of you who may have read Sibley's novel, Bodyslick, this work is, in my opinion, much more palatable. It is, in fact, as has been mentioned in another review, a fast and easy read. For the most part it takes me back to my earlier reading of Chapter 8, The Lost Culture of Maxwell Street. The editing is questionable—I hope you won't let that bother you. If you have an interest, even a curiosity about the life of art, outside of the mainstream, spoon-fed versions, this book will be of interest to you. If you have an interest in the causes and experience of the homeless, this book will interest you also, though it is not its main theme, despite the title. Recommended: by a fellow underground artist.
Open Road Media Honors a Great American Author: the late Howard Fast ~ Releasing 63 of Fast's Titles as EBooks in December 2011
December 13, 2011 in author, Freedom, Justice, Uncategorized, Writing | Tags: American worker, April Morning, Being Red, EBook publishing, Freedom Road, historical fiction, Howard Fast, human rights, humanitarianism, jesse s. hanson, labor struggle, Laura De Silva, McCarthy era, Mimi Fast, mini-terror, Open Road Integrated Media, Open Road Media, prolific author, revolutionary war, slavery, spokesman for common man, The American | Leave a comment
What a wonderful surprise when I was contacted by Laura De Silva of Open Road Integrated Media and presented with the opportunity to share this information: sixty-three Howard Fast titles to be published in EBook format, this month, December, 2011.
There's so much I could say about this hero of the real America, this spokesman for the common person everywhere. If you haven't heard of Howard Fast, there's a good reason for it. His work was banned and effectively buried during what Fast, in his memoir, Being Red, called the "mini-terror"—the McCarthy era. And although the ban was eventually lifted, it seems that the mini-terror lives on through our propaganda driven fears—the shadow places of our collective minds— as we struggle, seemingly in vain, to rise to the consciousness of a free people.
Those of us who love and appreciate Fast's work could go on and on, but I would ask you to let Fast tell you the story his way. If you read just one —perhaps The American (classic struggle of the American worker), or Freedom Road (the terrible reality of post-slavery "reconstruction"), or the poignantly heartbreaking revolutionary war novel, April Morning, I think you may want to, as I have begun to do, seek out the surviving copies of his books, tattered and battered though you may find them. However, Open Road Media has done much of the work for us at this time. Lover of technology or no, the work of this incredibly prolific writer is being preserved. For that we should be very grateful.
As always, thanks for stopping by my blog. Please leave a comment if so inclined. If I decide it's not spam, I'll approve it. (:<)> Namaste, jesse s. hanson
NOTE: The video above and all of the content below is reprinted from The Open Road Blog
NEWS FROM OPEN ROAD: December 13, 2011
Sixty-three Titles by New York Times Bestselling Author Howard Fast
Launching as Ebooks from Open Road Media
"The only thing that infuriates me, is that I have more unwritten stories in me
than I can conceivably write in a lifetime." —Howard Fast
Sixty-three titles by Howard Fast (1914–2003), one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century, will be released as ebooks by Open Road Integrated Media in December. Open Road will publish both fiction and nonfiction during a three-stage rollout.
Howard Fast, the bestsellingauthor of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays, grew up in New York City and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. In 1950, his refusal to provide the United States Congress with a list of possible Communist associates earned him a three-month prison sentence, along with a place on the blacklist of severalmajor publishers. During his incarceration, Fast wrote one of his best-known novels, Spartacus (1951), and went on to found his own press, Blue Heron, in order to release the work. Throughout his long career, Fast matched his commitment to championing social justice in his writing with a deft, lively storytelling style. His collection of bestselling novels such as Conceived in Liberty, Citizen Tom Paine, April Morning, and The Legacy illustrate themes of freedom and human rights in a time of turbulence and global war.
On December 13, 2011, nineteen titles—including April Morning—will be released. In April Morning, on the eve of the American Revolution, the Battle of Lexington and Concord changes a boy's life—and a nation's history—forever. Sweeping in scope and masterful in execution, this novel is a classic of American fiction and an unforgettable story of one community's fateful struggle for freedom. The Incredible Tito, Fast's fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascism, will be offered to readers as a free download.
On December 20, nineteenmysteries by Howard Fast writing as E. V. Cunningham will be released as ebooks. These include the Masao Masuto mysteries, beginning with The Case of the Angry Actress, starring detective Masuto, a second-generation Japanese-American, Buddhist homicide detective. Other titles include such female-centered works as Phyllis, Sally, and others.
On December 27, twenty-five titles will complete Open Road Media's Howard Fast ebook collection. Three of these are from Fast's much-loved Immigrants series, an immensely popular saga that spanned six novels and over a century of the Lavette family's story. Of this series, Open Road will release The Legacy, The Immigrant's Daughter, and An Independent Woman. Two of the nonfiction titles—The Art of Zen Meditation, in which Fast offers readers a simple, straightforward introduction to Zen meditation, which had a profound influence on his writing and personal philosophy; and Spain and Peace, a 1951 pamphlet that contains a powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco—will be offered as free downloads.
Extra content includes:
• Behind-the-scenes author commentary and videos at www.openroadmedia.com/authors/howard-fast.aspx
• An illustrated biography in each ebook, including previously unseen photographs and documents from Fast's personal life and distinguished career
Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google eBookstore/IndieBound, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and Sony Reader Store
Availability begins on December 13, 2011:
The American
April Morning
The Children
Citizen Tom Paine
Conceived in Liberty
The Edge of Tomorrow
The Incredible Tito*
The Last Supper
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel
Place in the City
The Proud and the Free
Silas Timberman
The Story of Lola Gregg
Thirty Pieces of Silver
The Winston Affair
On December, 20, 2011
mysteries by Howard Fast writing as E. V. Cunningham will go on sale:
The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun
The Case of the Angry Actress
The Case of the Kidnapped Angel
The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie
The Case of the One-Penny Orange
The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs
The Case of the Russian Diplomat
The Case of the Sliding Pool
The Wabash Factor
On December 27, 2011
more titles will be added to the Howard Fast ebook collection:
Agrippa's Daughter
The Art of Zen Meditation*
The Confession of Joe Cullen
The Crossing
Dinner Party
The General Zapped an Angel
Hunter and the Trap
The Immigrant's Daughter
An Independent Woman
The Jews
The Legacy
Literature and Reality
The Naked God
The Outsider
Peekskill USA
The Pledge
Spain and Peace*
Strange Yesterday
Time and the Riddle
A Touch of Infinity
Glamorous Lords, a review of The Killer Angels, plus an original song
March 23, 2011 in author, Book Reviews, Freedom, Justice, Native Americans, Poetry, Writing | Tags: anti-war, book review, civil war, civil war novel, dominion, Gettysburg, Glamorous Lords, goodreads.com, jesse s. hanson, Lee, Michael Shaara, protest song, Robert E. Lee, slavery, song by Jesse Hanson, The Killer Angels, The North and the South, The South, war, war protest, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment
Hope you will enjoy my review of The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Also hope you'll enjoy the lyrics of my original song, Glamorous Lords at the end of the post.
As always, thanks for stopping by my blog. Please leave a comment if you're so inclined. jesse s. hanson
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
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It's hard to explain. There's a quote at the end of this book: "Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record." –Winston Churchil, A History of the English Speaking Peoples.
I couldn't agree with that.
Everything in my being says that it wasn't handled right. The north just had a different way of handling it's slaves. It called them employees. Not only that, but during the "noblest and least avoidable conflict" the US Army was also busy exterminating the Native Americans to further the white man's God given dominion over the whole country. I guess we screwed up, losing part of Mexico and all. Will the real hypocrites please stand up!!
But the book is a page turner alright. Brilliant in capturing the simplicity of it all. A special note: I was surprised to see Lee portrayed as much less than perfect–deeply and vastly loved by his army, as well as the entire South, but much less than perfect.
Highly recommend this book. Draw or re-draw your own conclusions.
p.s. I've included this review on my blog https://jesseshanson.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/glamorous-lords-a-review-of-the-killer-angels-plus-an-original-song/ along with an original song of mine, Glamorous Lords, that was inspired by just such "noblest and least avoidable conflict"s. Oh well, Winston, no matter how great a man, in many ways, was a "Glamorous Lord", himself, no doubt.
Jesse S. Hanson
You speak so carelessly about death
As if there was only your part in it
And when the killing's finally over with
You wish to once again begin it
All your wars, you mighty butchers
Glamorous Lords, you find yourselves
You break down doors, you private lookers
Flesh and blood on swords is where your perversion dwells
They came like demons and they came like priests
They came like vampires in the darkness
In the names of gods and in the names of beasts
We fought and we fled and we became heartless
With colors flying and bright metal shining
The ground is shaking before the horde
Elephants and horses and dark angels riding
Beware the servants of the Lord
All your wars, you mighty butchers
Glamorous Lords, you find yourselves
You break down doors, you private lookers
Flesh and blood on swords is where your perversion dwells
Some speak of the past as if it's past
As if we are somehow above it
But they've gone to every corner, all unasked
Until there's no place left to love it
Out of all the earthly six directions
A sound that for all who hear portends
For dominion lost in derelictions
And lost, it does not come back again
and lost, it does not come back again
and lost it does not come back…
come back again…

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Even three and some months after the UK voted to leave the European Union, the subject is best avoided for those in London seeking peaceful conversation. But as their anger subsides – 60% of London voted "Remain" – the city's financial services sector is coming to realise despite its massive contribution to the UK (£65bn in annual taxes; 1.1m jobs) the privileged status it has long enjoyed is ending. New Prime Minister Theresa May has sent strong signals to the bankers, telling them she is made of a different cloth to predecessor David Cameron. Her position on banks aligns more closely with a voting public which remains deeply suspicious of "the City". In their decision making processes, Cameron and his right hand, Chancellor George Osborne, were ever mindful of the contribution by London's banks. With hindsight, treating financial services as Royal Game perpetuated the expansion of an artificial bubble where London has become something of a city state within the UK with significantly different property prices, living expenses and even attitudes. That status is very much in danger. The consequences of such change is far from certain. But not for long. At a practical level, the impact of Brexit is about to begin. – Alec Hogg
(Bloomberg) — British financial-services companies will get no special favors in Brexit negotiations from Prime Minister Theresa May, who wants to change the relationship between the government and the City of London.
According to three senior figures in May's administration, the government will refuse to prioritize the protection of the sector after the U.K. has left the European Union. Her team has also dismissed the key business demand for an interim deal with the EU to help ease the transition out of the bloc, one of the people said. All asked not to be named because the information is sensitive.
Downgrading the concerns of the City, as the capital's financial district is called, signals a clear break from May's predecessor, David Cameron, who put the risk to financial services at the heart of his failed referendum campaign to keep the U.K in the EU. Cameron argued that Brexit would be a high-stakes "gamble" for the U.K. and its financial-services sector, which accounts for almost 12 percent of economic output and 1.1 million jobs.
The shift also risks adding to investor concerns about a so-called hard Brexit. The pound sank to its lowest level since July on Monday amid growing speculation May's government is prepared to surrender membership of the European single market for trade in return for more power over immigration, law-making and the budget. Sterling was down 0.1 percent at 7.38 a.m. in London.
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In her speech on Sunday to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, May didn't refer to the City of London, instead saying only that she wants the Brexit deal to involve free trade in goods and services as well as cooperation on law enforcement and counter-terrorism work.
"I recognize the concern that business has, they want to see a smooth process as we go through these negotiations and transition out of the European Union," May said Tuesday in an interview with ITV. "I want to make sure we're listening to business and I've had meetings with businesses big and small and government ministers are talking to businesses across different sectors."
May told the BBC before her speech that she wants to achieve the right deal for business in her Brexit negotiations. "We owe it to businesses, people who want to invest in the United Kingdom for the future to actually ensure that we get the right deal for trading goods and services," she said.
Shock Realization
Business leaders are failing to recognize that the new prime minister has a different view of the City of London from Cameron, the people said. May does not simply accept what the City says in the way that Cameron and his former chancellor, George Osborne, tended to do, according to one person. That realization will be a shock to some in the City, the person said.
Financial-services firms risk damaging their relationship with lawmakers by repeatedly complaining about the impact of Brexit on their businesses and threatening to move their offices out of the U.K., one senior figure said, dismissing as a joke the idea that London-based financial-service companies would all move to Frankfurt, Paris or Dublin.
While it's possible the government may be bluffing ahead of the Brexit negotiations to come, any attempt to keep the City at arms length risks alienating a core driver of the U.K. economy at a time of heightened uncertainty. Banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and UBS Group AG have warned they will move jobs abroad if the Brexit negotiations threaten to hurt their businesses. That could undermine the 65 billion pounds ($84 billion) the financial industry contributes to the nation's coffers each year.
Transitional Period
On Monday, Miles Celic, the chief executive of TheCityUK lobby group, said that "what the industry wants to see agreed and secured as early as possible is a transitional period to help ensure financial stability, and minimize disruption to businesses' ability to provide products and services to customers."
Inside the government, officials believe the impact of Brexit on the City will be to cut the size of a few bankers' bonuses, with only a few hundred jobs moving elsewhere in Europe. Voters would welcome rather than complain about such an outcome, one of the people said.
The 2008 financial crisis tipped the economy into recession, eroding residual public concern over banks and banking jobs. The signs of changing attitudes were highlighted in a report in The Times of London on Monday that David Davis, the Brexit secretary, seemed unconcerned by the prospect that a hard departure from the bloc could result in the loss of 75,000 jobs from the City.
May announced on Sunday that she would trigger the Brexit process by invoking Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, marking the formal start of a two-year negotiation process. Banks and analysts have suggested an interim agreement with the EU may be necessary to preserve existing passporting rights and give businesses the time to make arrangements to move some operations to other European cities.
British government officials rejected the idea of seeking an interim deal in blunt terms.
Steve Baker, a member of May's Conservative Party who serves on Parliament's Treasury Committee, said the finance industry must adjust to the new post-Brexit reality.
"Given the obvious steel in our new prime minister, the City would be ill-advised if they did not accept the new political reality," he said in an interview. "For a very long time, the City is seen as having enjoyed a privileged status and London has ended up becoming a kind of city-state, separate from the rest of the nation. Actually we have all got to go forward as one United Kingdom — and that is bound to mean change."


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Commodore Computer User Group June 1987
Commodore 128 & Commodore 64
Will Hercus
Various sources used.
Complete reference listing is available upon request.
128 Key Repeat
The keys on the C-128
repeat when held down. If you want to change the C-128 to have non-repeating
keys like the C-64, type POKE 2594,0. This will only allow only the
spacebar, the INST/DEL key, and the cursor keys to repeat. To return to
normal, type POKE 2594,128 try It.
Load and Run Programs
If you type a colon ":"
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program will automatically load and run.
Did You Know?
With SPEEDSCRIPT and
PAPERCLIP (and maybe other word processors) you can draw lines on the screen
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I Spy and Secret Codes
Partly out of pride and
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designers will often sign" their work by embedding strange pieces of code or
cute messages In their programs. The most famous "signature" In Commodore
circles Is the music code which plays "POMP and CIRCUMSTANCE" stuck In the
middle of BABY SCRIPT. The latest 1s In the C-128 and you can see it for
yourself. Type in SYS32800,123,45,6 (In C-128 mode of course).
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Pacific Vector Holdings Inc (TSX VENTURE:PVH) ("Pacific Vector" or the "Company") a leading specialty retailer of action sports based retail and brands annouced today that net revenues for the third quarter and year to date periods ended Oct 7, 2013 were $4.1 million and $8.8 million which are increases of $3.7 million and $7.6 million respectively over the same periods last year. The increases in revenue were a result of the acquisition of Ryderz Compound retail stores which was completed April 8, 2013. The cash loss per share for the quarter and year to date were 3.5¢ and 7¢.
Key highlights
Robert Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Vector Holdings, Inc.,:"Pacific Vector continues to deliver acquisitive growth across its divisions while focusing on stabilizing margins, bolstering inventory, providing brand continuity across our retail stores, while also investing for future growth, particularly in the International and e-commerce areas."
Retail Divison
The retail division of PVH currently consists of the Xrydez and No Fear stores. The company is currently engaged in a re-branding of the retail stores to PR7ME Ride Shop (pronounced Prime) (www.primerideshop.com). This re-branding initiative was created to better represent a broader range of youth culture lifestyle brands and create brand contunity across the retail portfolio. To-date the Company has converted two of the thirty-four stores to the Prime Ride Shops and the Company is seeing an increase in foot traffic as a result. Our retail strategy remains to expand the Retail operations over the next three years under the PR7ME Ride Shop and the Street League banners. During the most recent quarter, the Company was on schedule with its store re-branding initiative and is scheduled to convert nine locations to PR7ME Ride Shops in Q1 2014. Those locations include in San Diego, Orange County, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. The Company has also entered into a joint venture with Rob Dyrdek to launch the Street League e-commerce site scheduled for launch in Q1 2014 prior to the first Street League event.
Online order fulfillment and information technology solutions continue to be developed in-house with full back-end support from our distribution center resources in Carlsbad, CA. The e-commerce platform is now fully operational to maximize efficiencies.
The Company continues to right-size the business unit but has experienced unforeseen issues relating to inventory product mix, supply chain and human resources. Those issues coupled with a challenging market place, weaker traffic trends and a shortened shopping season made it challening retail enviroment during the most recent quarter. The Company expects its retail division to break even in the 4th Q of 2013 due to seasonally improved sales but expect it to realize losses again in the first two quarter sof 2013 until it reaches a critical mass of stores under the PR7ME Ride Shop or Street League banner.
Brand Division
The brands portfolio consists of Gatorz aluminum eyewear and most recently Alien workshop, Habitat Footwear and Reflex bearings which it acquired on November 20th from DNA Distribution. The Company expects to realize higher margin growth across the groups due to its ownership in brands.
To view the complete financial statements along with the Management Discussion and Analysis please visit SEDAR or the company's website.
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Pacific Vector is a premier action sports retail and consumer brands company. www.pacificvector.com
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a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree
something inert, heavy, or not sentient
any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship, as a chip log or patent log
any of various records, made in rough or finished form, concerning a trip made by a ship or aircraft and dealing with particulars of navigation, weather, engine performance, discipline, and other pertinent details; logbook
an account describing or denoting each shot as it is taken, written down during production and referred to in editing the film
a register of the operation of a machine
Also called well log
a record kept during the drilling of a well, especially of the geological formations penetrated
any of various chronological records made concerning the use of a computer system, the changes made to data, etc
Radio and Television
a written account of everything transmitted by a station or network
Also called log of wood
Australian Slang
a lazy, dull-witted person; fool
As verb (used with object), logged, logging
to cut (trees) into logs:to log pine trees for fuel
to cut down the trees or timber on (land):We logged the entire area in a week
to enter in a log; compile; amass; keep a record of:to log a day's events
to make (a certain speed), as a ship or airplane:We are logging knots
to travel for (a certain distance or a certain amount of time), according to the record of a log:We logged miles the first day
He has logged , hours flying time
As verb (used without object), logged, logging
to cut down trees and get out logs from the forest for timber:to log for a living
As Verb phrases
log in, Also, log on, sign on
to enter identifying data, as a username or password, into a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked system, so as to to access and use it: Log in to start your work session
Log in to your account to pay your bill online
to enter or include any item of information or data in a record, account, etc
log off/out, Computers
to terminate a session
As noun
the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like
fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something
equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins
Also called bearer, dead metal
pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase
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February 6, 2010 (CHICAGO) --A Chicago group is urging young people to come forward and help stop the violence.Four large signs will go up with a phone number that people can call to provide information about crime in their neighborhoods.
It's all part of an effort the group Kids Off the Block is spearheading.
A spokesperson says callers can leave a recorded message, and they will not have to leave their names.
The signs will go up near Julian, Fenger and Harlan high schools, as well as by Olive-Harvey college.


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A talk on the amazing Barn Owl & Short-Eared Owls I have spent many hours photographing in many varied weather conditions over the past year, I will talk to you about the challenging aspects of this project I faced along the way, the setup I used along with tips and hints for you to be able to find and photograph Owls local to you!
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For what it's worth, a certain poll shows that 25% of Black voters admit they support MrTrump. That can't be a surprise to the Dems and their MSM minions who most likely have their own internal polls to ponder.
It's likely that a similar poll of dues-paying union members would show a bigger percentage for MrTrump as his whole agenda is something they approve- from the anti-illegal alien, let's be winners again, let's fix the roads and bridges, and jobs, jobs, jobs.
The MSM, in every media, throws everything they have at MrTrump in an attempt to destroy him in the public eye. Instead of promoting him for the loser they claim he really is so as to insure MrsClinton has a weak opponent, they reveal the knowlege that MrTrump would, um, thump her in a general election.
Traditional truths about how to run for office, who the public will support, and the certainty of particular voting blocs is all a relic of the last century.
Well said, srdem.
I believe the traditional ways of voting went out the window in the 2008 election. We have lived in a topsy turvy world since then.
Good morning. I agree. I am trying to stay positive. The 2nd debate am, but I am not looking forward to.
Think back to George Washington, no campaigning, no primary, no billions spent on getting dirt on the nonexistent opponent.
George agreed to the job reluctantly. What a long way we've fallen in 240 years.
Fallen? We have kept the world in one piece, reached out to the miserable, provided a flawed but workable example of self-governance, we were the only country to ever drop a nuclear weapon on a population, instilling a fear and caution that may save us all, despite what some religious fanatics say to control their own population, we have fed a lot of the world, provided entertainment that still sets the gold standard, some of the greatest artists ever born, I could go on. Geo Washington also did not have it so easy–there was a lot of ambivilance about this new system back in those days–he didn't even want to be president.
Fallen in these last several years of 0 & his leading behind, putting our nation into third world status with open borders, bowing to kings of crazy mooslum countries, shoving his healthcare bs, thereby increasing cost & negating decent health care choice upon those paying. Giving up our country to sick, diseased illegal immigrants who demand our money & support, while waving the flag of their country of origin.
Yes. We have fallen since this fake idiot was elected president of our country. And as I said, Washington reluctantly accepted the job as president. Way back then, there were ideals that the new country aspired to. If they could see how much we have fallen out of the initial intent of our USA they would be ill.
We have taken some funny jumps for sure, but this country has hardly been destroyed or fallen in my opinion. What has happened can be repaired. I know some politicians (and yes he is one now) are making hay on this "we don't have a country" riff these days.
From the "even a broken clock is right twice a day" category, WaPo's Fred Hiatt nails Obama Syrian catastrophe:
He has soothed the American people into feeling no responsibility. I thought he was using Kool-Aid.
I wish people would quit blaming Kool-Aid–with a little vodka it's not half bad.
This is another topic but I think it important to keep up with what is going on in our hemisphere. It appears to me Obama is bound and determined to give Guantanamo to the Cubans. This will give the countries who want to do us harm another foothold. Can you image Iranian, Chinese and Russian warships anchored in Guantanamo Bay?
Starting next year there will be direct, non stop flights from Turkey and Dubai to Panama.
Another open door for the terrorist to come this way. The Dubai flight will take 17 hours and be the longest flight in the world.
Venezuela is dead broke. Their money is worthless. They have all sorts of shortages. Inflation is out of control. There are border problems with the Colombia. The US is on their enemies list.
China is still giving money to Venezuela. Here is an article from Foreign Policy.
I live in Panama. All I am saying is please do not ignore what is going on in our backyard.
Great post and sadly so true. My 2012 political column tag line on Obama was "Obama 2012, Kick him out or kiss it good-bye".
Well we didn't kick him out and every day we wave good-bye to another piece of a once great nation.
PS We are still a great nation…
Old Timer, I was unaware of the plan for the non-stop flights from Turkey and Dubai. Everyone's backyard is being stomped upon one way or the other.
That last sentence, once not to make lite of your situation.
Actually, I think I am better off down here than being the States.
:) The best to our fine Country.
Given Obama's sinister and untrustworthy approach to international politics as it impacts the United States, I think you have it right.
It goes like this: Obama gives Gitmo to Cuba–that's perfectly obvious. Guantanamo Bay is much more than a mere prison–it has excellent housing, an airport (smallish, but still), self sufficient power generation, excellent port accommodations, medical facilities, strategic location, etc.
Then Cuba leases Gitmo to Russia, giving Putin a nice warm water port in the Western hemisphere, just off the coast of the US. Russian warships and freighters already dock in Cuba, which has, as we know, has a very long relationship with Russia. That's what's coming.
Count on it.
You nailed it, Marcus…as always!
Venezuela on deck to become Obama's next BFF and "ally".
The legacy comes before anything!
Never mind that human rights conditions in Cuba reportedly have not changed; never mind that Iran, Russia and China have emasculated Obama; never mind that dozens of the worst of the terrorists from GITMO will probably be housed in a US super max facility; never mind that Cuba could become the home base for anyone who wants to do us harm; and never mind that Cuba is 90 miles off our 'wet foot/dry foot' shore!
Thanks Barry! Enjoy your Havana vacay with Beyonce and JayZ !
That can all be reversed with a decent congress.
Gators beware.
The attack cat is on the prowl.
Smile…. If you have never been to the bayou's down here, it is wonderful.
Too HOT !
I spent a year and a half in the Philippines.
It once briefly got into the 60's and the natives were freezing their butts off and the GI's were lovin' it.
I don't like hot humid weather.
Looking forward to Fall.
When it gets in the sixties here, I am shivering and whining…thin blood.
I have always loved the fall.
Jacket/sweatshirt weather.
Gorgeous trees.
My first assignment in the AF was Syracuse, N.Y.
The NE is stunning when the trees turn color.
Must be a zonie? I have no words to express how much I hated the weather in Tucson. 2 years their OMG 100 days over 100 degrees. 10 months of AC bills. 300 to 400 dollars a month for AC. Every thing was a plane trip and a rent a car. Like being in an oven island.
Yup–nice, huh? No drifts, no killer ice stalagites to brain you, no gale force hawks, no slip n slide, brake and break, tears being ripped from your eyes.
Von Ebb, you had a crapy A/C unit. We never have bills that high. I agree it's HOT! Butt, a/c house to a/c car to a/c business is do-able. Too hot sucks, butt we do get summer monsoon rains that make it bearable ‼
:) I would rather be hot than shriving cold. I mentioned last week, I cut the front and back yard. Before I got started I took the hose and wet my hair and my cloths. I walk around with the mower pretending to be at the beach.
The King celebrates Labor Day with yet another Executive Order which he will announce in Boston. Perhaps the King should be dumped in the harbor?
I missed that – why is he (a) Going to Boston and (b) what exec order is he imposing on us??
Paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors.
Oh dear. Thanks for the article, I think.
One Boston newspaper wrote Obama was in Boston to "Show solidarity with workers on Labor Day"
Ha ha ha ha ha, take a breath, he ha ha ha. What, did he shake the hand of the pilot of AF1 who has to work today because the President wants to leave DC??
Note how the socialist Labor Secretary Perez laments the fact that we are behind Europe on this. It seems that the UN and the new international order is the goal of this Administration where we will be one of many — and mediocre at that.
Federal employees–did you know Wendy's employees get no paid hols or sick leave?
MY kids are all gainfully employed. Not a one gets REQUIRED paid sick leave. Not a one.
Depending on the contractor, that may actually be a good idea.
I have a confidante here in Washington who was working for a contractor at one of the military bases here. For their first year, their employees got NO leave AT ALL–it was no work, no pay. On their one-year anniversary, they got ten days' leave for the upcoming year. Not SICK leave–LEAVE. As in, ALL-PURPOSE leave. As in, every sick day meant one less vacation day.
You had to last five years with that contractor to get fifteen days' leave for the upcoming year.
On top of that, if GS employees were given a comp day–day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve on a Thursday, and so on–those contractors got no such luxury. They had to burn a day of leave.
And this was all on top of the contract being "at-will," meaning they could be let go at any time, for any reason, or none at all.
Often, contractors have to squeeze a bit to get the low bid in, and sometimes, that means the unseen tradespeople at these installations end up taking the hit.
Let's hear this one out before we pooh-pooh it.
So, with that logic, when I got my first job, I should have said, even though I'm new here, I want a month vacation, paid sick leave, I want health insurance free?
Every job I had I had to EARN privileges, not be handed them just because it was a good idea.
There are also instances where employees of federal contractors are employed at beyond market rates and at will. Many contract employees in any industry do not receive the benefits of regular employees. And there are a lot of federal contractors who are small shop. Moreover a federal contractor is still a private business and whatever "benefits" they provide should be at their discretion not a man at 1600 Pennsylvania with a pen and a phone. How is it that he can alter federal contracts at a whim.
I was a registered govt contractor at one time–getting THAT was a you know what. I never got a contract but did get contractors who wanted me on their team so they could say woman owned business. When they got the contract-they never included me. This is dirt common. And yes, often these contract jobs pay a ton–bec the benefits are so skimpy. And even the contractors know these deals are temporary–contracts end and sometimes do not get renewed or they get rebid. I think Obama messed in this pond bec it was something he could do with his "pen."
Star, I was team leader for federal contractors — working abroad. It is a contract, you are right, they end and life goes on. No lifetime employment, pensions etc. You do contract work you understand that.
When I was overseas and my father was sick I went home — paid my own airfare etc. –was not docked pay and given as much time as I needed. Each contractor is different.
Good post, grace. The world of contracting can be very cushy or very mean streets.
I worked for many big aerospace companies. General Dynamics, Hughes Air Craft, GD/E Systems, ATK missile systems.
All went to PTO in the early 90's. Gone was any sick leave. PTO means paid time off.
We could have 240 hours in bank year to year.
Then it was PTO shrink to carry over of only 60 hours. Use it or lose it.
I had so many banked hours I took every friday off for over a year to use it. Management was pissed about that ATK sucks.
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September 7, 2015, 1:12 pm at 1:12 pm
All the more reason to not EO blanket regs. I worked for small to medium contractors, my SO worked for defense contractor. Night and day.
Obama the dictator signed another exec order today — when asked about details of where money will come from for this edict, and other common sense details, filthy White House says "We don't know details about how money will be paid, etc." Did you ever? The sooner this horror invading OUR White House is cleaned out of these commies/socialists/failures the better. Can't wait.
Does the community organizer proof-read his speeches? He is yapping away in Boston about the history of organizing/unions: "Your parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents – those are the folks that gave us the FORTY HOUR WEEK, overtime, minimum wage…"
Does he realize he is the one who DESTROYED the 40 hour week with his disastrous Obamacare???
***He keeps lapsing in and out of his fake Black dialect. As far as I can see, this is NOT a Black audience, lol.
Excellent point Girly.
Either he has the memory of a goldfish, is lying, or thinks we have the memory of a goldfish, the videos and the internet do not lie.
His regal arrogance delights in playing us for fools.
So easy to forget yourself…that's funny. Maybe he is worried about the blacks that would supposedly vote for Trumpie–which, by the way, I would need way more evidence of. Is that a sentence?
These guys are brain dead or just think we are. Biden was out there railing against lack of jobs etc. — eight years in, who does he think was in charge. Yeah! Biden for President.
Not really shovel-ready, oops. The Summer of Recovery–the OTHER Summer of Recovery, oh, look, it's summer–the summer of Recovery. Are all these jobs, whoever promises them, coming from infrastructure repairs? Will the cash abroad be repatriated–if so, will it be used for expansion and creation of jobs or will enough people have a job to justify expansion–meaning they could buy whatever was made? Or will all the jobs be govt jobs–we know how that works out so well.
Biden will be all for the "common man". I find really phony coming from him who has been a government employee his entire life.
I am sympathetic to all people who lose loved ones, especially children. I am suspect of those who use it in their political campaigns, on purpose or not. This goes from Rick Santorum to Joe Biden.
Wasn't Uncle Joe responsible for the accounting of the stimulus funds? Was there ever a report?
Another budget battle is on the burner.
POTUS has already warned the reps that the gov cannot be shutdown.
God help us.
AFVet says:
September 7, 2015, 2:01 pm at 2:01 pm
McConnell will fold and give Obama everything he wants. The mere whisper of veto sends McConnell off to "it can't be done " land rather than take the hit and make Obama veto stuff and then explain why to the public.
Obama could splain until he was blue in his greenish face and the shutdown would be blamed on the Reps. Word.
To Star,…..YEP !
To Grace, yep,….seen this play before.
It will go down to the last minute again.
I think the deadline is Sept. 30.
Christian Asylum seekers hounded out of immigrant housing by Muslim immigrants in Sweden. Bullying tactics used if you wore the cross. They ended up leaving.
The only true and good refugees are Muslim refugees Lee. Try and keep up. :):)
Here's the link Lee was referring to.
Thanks . I read it earlier in the day. I was teasing.
:) :)
Did the backyard grass work on Labor Day and cleaned the fridge. :)
Completely OT, but as we approach this year's 9/11, here's a story describing how our colleges (some of them, at least) are teaching students that 9/11 was all our fault. Must be part of the CORE curriculum. They just never stop, do they?
Thanks for posting the article Marcus, I read about this as well. Very sad. Families need to talk to their kids about history and current events from time to time.
Which reminds me…
*rummages around in the DVD collection for "United 93″*
Unfortunately for those who are truly suffering, there is much around that suggests this overwhelming refugee crisis is a trojan horse, orchestrated, infiltrated, etc.
Over at Legal Insurrection there is a very good article with interesting and informative comments, note especially Uncle Samuel.
Powerful stuff, Grace. Thanks. I'm listening to European talk radio and callers are tearing their hair out over this out of control refugee problem. They are frightened, confused, angry at the entire situation. They blame their governments, the complete lack of leadership to manage the situation effectively. Total chaos.